Reply to: Remember the Sinclair Microdrive?

[Ignis Fatuus]

Sinclair was a bit of a c*^1 . He used to by job lots of reject components so often his kit would fail.

He wasn't alone. When I took my faulty new Commodore 64 back to the retailer, they commented that, while all other microcomputers went back for repair, Commodore had asked them to hold extra stock and simply replace faulty units without question. Or as they said, Commodore saved money by having the customers do the quality control.

[NickFitz]

...in fact, it WAS an Amstrad. Was the Spectrum+ also an Amstrad?

Yes, that came after Amstrad had bought Sir Clive out.

I remember the Microdrive being announced. Guy Kewney in PCW called it out straight away as being a tape drive at a time when many thought it would be a disk. His logic: if it was a disk, Sinclair would have called it that, as a new disk drive would be much more marketable than a tape drive. Time passed...















...and it was finally released, and it was indeed a tape drive. This sort of thing was why PCW was such essential reading in those halcyon days

[suityou01]

That avatar is REALLY horrible suity.

Better now?

[xoggoth]

That avatar is REALLY horrible suity.

[Project Monkey]

...in fact, it WAS an Amstrad. Was the Spectrum+ also an Amstrad?

[SupremeSpod]

Yeh, it did have that feel come to think of it.

Sinclair was bought out by Amstrad.

Kids, eh?

Tatung used the same size disks.

Ocean used the "Tatung Einstein" as their development machines.

[Project Monkey]

<cough>Amstrad</cough>

Just saying, like...

Yeh, it did have that feel come to think of it.

[SupremeSpod]

Sinclair also produced a 3" FDD. I had one in my CPC6128. I was chuffed to bits with it at the time.

<cough>Amstrad</cough>

Just saying, like...

[Project Monkey]

Sinclair also produced a 3" FDD. I had one in my CPC6128. I was chuffed to bits with it at the time.

[suityou01]

Perhaps the magnetic attraction of your arse to the bench is somehow linked to your inability to accurately assess people and situations.

Just saying like...

So we're being nasty in this thread and nice in the other thread, right?

[SupremeSpod]

I've never seen a picture of you, I only have the way you post on here to go by, and you come across as a malodorous, petulant, jumped up teenager.

#jsl

Perhaps the magnetic attraction of your arse to the bench is somehow linked to your inability to accurately assess people and situations.

Just saying like...

[suityou01]

No mate. I didn't get access to an Amiga until I worked with Ocean. And that was an imported A1000.

I'm older than I look. Not quit Zeity's vintage though.

I've never seen a picture of you, I only have the way you post on here to go by, and you come across as a malodorous, petulant, jumped up teenager.

#jsl

[SupremeSpod]

Which makes you the cool kid / bully with the Amiga500, am I right?

No mate. I didn't get access to an Amiga until I worked with Ocean. And that was an imported A1000.

I'm older than I look. Not quit Zeity's vintage though.

[suityou01]

The little fat kid with the QL?

Which makes you the cool kid / bully with the Amiga500, am I right?

[Paddy]

The little fat kid with the QL?

Sinclair was a bit of a c*^1 . He used to by job lots of reject components so often his kit would fail.